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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

knowledgefactory.co.za

Knowledge Factory - Enriched Property Data | Property Data South Africa

Page Load Speed

41 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

22.1 sec

Page Rendered

17.9 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Knowledge Factory content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about knowledgefactory.co.za

Knowledge Factory is a Property Data and Technology company. We are a proudly black business with a B-BBEE status of level 1. The company was formed in 1997 and is now thriving for just over two decad...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knowledgefactory.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 39.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

knowledgefactory.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.56

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knowledgefactory.co.za

1032 ms

js

49 ms

font-awesome.min.css

477 ms

materialdesignicons.min.css

984 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1224 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Knowledgefactory.co.za, 7% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Knowledgefactory.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (20%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Knowledgefactory.co.za main page is 8.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 49.5 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 7.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.4 kB, which is 35% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 42.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 662.9 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.1 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Knowledge Factory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 363.5 kB

  • Original 669.6 kB
  • After minification 657.8 kB
  • After compression 306.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 363.5 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 571.5 kB

  • Original 651.6 kB
  • After minification 556.4 kB
  • After compression 80.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Knowledgefactory.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 571.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (62%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knowledge Factory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

knowledgefactory.co.za accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

knowledgefactory.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

knowledgefactory.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Knowledgefactory.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Knowledgefactory.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Knowledge Factory. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: